Episode 969: Abby Pucker and Chanelle Lacy… It’s Cool to Care?
What if the problem with Chicago’s art world isn’t a shortage of artists, galleries, institutions, or ideas—but a shortage of connective tissue?
This week on Bad at Sports, Duncan MacKenzie sits down at the Gertie Hub with Gertie founder Abby Pucker and Head of Programming, Partnerships & Membership Chanelle Lacy for a conversation about building audiences, building collectors, and building cultural infrastructure in Chicago.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/10-9/16)
1. Laleh Motlagh: Rooted. Uprooted. September 12, 5-8PM SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art: 1527 N Ashland Ave 2. Reevah Agarwaal: Now I Braid My Own Hair September 12, 6-9PM Boundary: 2334 W 111th Pl 3. Robert Fields: EVERY NOW N’THEN . . . September 13,...
Episode 964: Jenal Dolson
Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, and Brian Andrews are joined by painter Jenal Dolson for a conversation recorded live from the Door County Contemporary Art Fair in Wisconsin. Dolson discusses her vividly textured paintings, her installation practice, and the role of touch, memory, and sensory experience in shaping the visual language of her work.
Episode 963: Tyson Reeder
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Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller finally welcome painter, educator, and perennial instigator Tyson Reeder to Bad at Sports.
Recorded during Door County Contemporary Art Fair, the discussion wanders through the history of Milwaukee’s DIY art scene, the legendary Dark Fair, artist-run culture, teaching, painting, collaboration, and the productive tension between sincerity and absurdity.
Episode 962: Sophia Chai
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This week Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist Sophia Chai at the Door County Contemporary Art Fair to discuss photography that insists on becoming something else. Working between painting, sculpture, installation, and large-format analog photography, Chai creates images that challenge our assumptions about perspective, representation, and the mechanics of seeing itself.
Episode 961: Tanner MacArthur
Tanner MacArthur joins Bad at Sports live from Door County Contemporary for a conversation that begins with secret fry sauce recipes and somehow ends with the shape of Delaware as a sandwich-eating methodology.
MacArthur discusses his dual role as both artist and gallerist through his Milwaukee project space, Addendum, founded alongside James Stepanek as an extension of No Instructions Gallery.
Episode 960: Shane Walsh
This episode on Bad at Sports, Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, and Brian Andrews sit down with artist, organizer, and Door County Contemporary co-founder Shane Walsh at the close of another sunny and slightly delirious weekend in Door County.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (7/23-7/29)
1. George Clinton: Mothership July 25- September 5, 2026 MARIANE IBRAHIM: 437 N Paulina St 2. Deborah Maris Lader: We Become Birds July 25, 5-7PM Bert Green Fine Art: 8 S Michigan Ave 3. Michael Barnes: The Melting Point July 24, 6-9PM crosswalk: 1856 N...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (7/16-7/22)
1. Laleh Motlagh: The Jade July 19, 2-5PM Epiphany Center for the Arts: 201 S Ashland Ave 2. AMERICAN HISTORY QUILTS: Dorothy Straughter July 19, 11:15AM-12:15PM Fourth Presbyterian Church: 126 E Chestnut St 3. Steve ‘Stingo’ Badauskas: CROSSROADS July...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (7/9-7/15)
1. Chicago Arts Census: Virtual Town Hall July 15, 3-5PM Chicago Arts Census: Online 2. Mia Capodilupo: Hybrid Infestation July 10, 5-9PM Art City: 1400 N Halsted St 3. Collin van der Sluijs: Wanderland July 10, 6-8PM Joy Machine: 4148 N...
Sub-Rural #62, Whitney Claflin at Green Gallery
Whitney Claflin’s current Milwaukee exhibition “The Shops at Atlas Park” breeds aesthetics with merchandizing at the Green Gallery’s uniquely panoramic space on Farwell St. Her variously sized works ironically named after a mixed outdoor retail park in Queens,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (6/25-7/1)
1. Quetzali. Petalo: The Myth of Us June 26, 6-10PM Avondale Collective: 2800 N Milwaukee Ave 2. trejon: Seeds June 27, 7-10PM SPACE 01: 4850 W Bloomingdale Ave 3. Maisie Corl: Porcupette June 27, 5-8PM TUSK: 3205 W Armitage Ave 4. Loc...
Sub-Rural # 61, Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) opening today on its 19-acre southside campus designed by architects Billie Tsien and Todd Williams with landscape by Michael van Valkenburgh is an extraordinary architectural trek that’s gained much deserved attention but...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (6/18-6/24)
1. Natalia Villanueva Linares: Chillona of the Forest.1+2 June 19-21, 2026 Mana Contemporary: 2233 S Throop St 2. Artist Talk and Screening with Las Nietas de Nonó June 20, 5-6PM Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church: 600 W Fullerton Pkwy 3. Gerald Williams:...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (6/11-17)
1. Delightful Semapahores June 12, 6-9PM Co-Prosperity: 3219-21 S Morgan St Work by: Zach Hill, Coco Clockner, and Zante Moore 2. nánwàng de y? ti?n June 12, 6-10PM SHANGHAI SEMINARY: 3262 S Morgan St 3. Josué Esaú: The Carocal June 13, 6-9PM boundary:...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (6/4-10)
1. Lisa Villa-Moser: Masasarap na Panaginip (Delicious Dreams) June 6, 12-4PM The Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago Museum (FAHSC): Mana Contemporary, Suite 316, 2233 S Throop St 2. Ghost Index: Curtis Miller and Megan Tan June 6, 4-7PM Comfort...